Ibn ʿAqīl (1298–1367)
Born 1298 CE, died 1367 CE.
ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Hāshimī ibn ʿAqīl al-Shāfiʿī al-Qurashī al-Bālisī (November 1294 – 18 November 1367), usually known as Ibn ʿAqīl, was a Syrian grammarian and jurist of the Shāfiʿī school active in Mamlūk Egypt. Ibn ʿAqīl has entries in the biographical dictionaries of Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Ibn al-Qāḍī and al-Suyūṭī. There is conflicting information regard his birth year. It is usually placed in Muḥarram 694 AH, which corresponds to November 1294, but some sources give the year as 698 or 700. He was born in Bālis in Syria and in Cairo received an education in Arabic grammar under Abū Ḥayyān al-Gharnāṭī and in fiqh (jurisprudence) under ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Qūnawī and Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī. He was with Abū Ḥayyān for twelve years and was regarded as his favourite pupil. Ibn ʿAqīl became the nāʾib (substitute) of the chief qāḍī (judge) ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿa. After Ibn Jamāʿa dismissed him, he won the support of the Emir Ṣarghitmish. In 1355 or 1358, Ṣarghitmish dismissed Ibn Jamāʿa and appointed Ibn ʿAqīl chief qāḍī. After only eighty days, Ṣarghitmish was dismissed, followed by Ibn ʿAqīl, and Ibn Jamāʿa was reinstated.
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